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Direct linkHickey, Tina M.; de Mejía, Anne-Marie – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
Early years' immersion education programmes can be either monolingual or bilingual, and their objectives can range from language maintenance and/or enrichment to early second language learning, depending on the context of implementation. Here we examine some of the key issues and policy concerns relating to immersion education in the early…
Descriptors: Immersion Programs, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Early Childhood Education
Hickey, Tina M.; Lewis, Gwyn; Baker, Colin – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2014
A challenge noted in a number of endangered language contexts is the need to mix second-language (L2) learners of the target language with first-language (L1) speakers of that language in a less planned way than is found in the two-way immersion approach. Such mixing of L1 speakers of the target language with L2 learners arises from the difficulty…
Descriptors: Welsh, Language Maintenance, Language Skill Attrition, Foreign Countries
